"You should not have to be arrested in order to access treatment, and treatment should not happen under the threat of incarceration."
-Lindsay Lasalle of @DrugPolicyOrg during our summit's first panel on the Intersection of Behavioral Health and the Criminal Legal System in SF
no: Prosecute traffickers, treat addicts. re: Decriminalize since it still happens (binary thinking) That's the "Why have laws and enforcement if crime happens?" argument. Why try to punish murderers & rapists if it still happens?pic.twitter.com/0XXSaNLw6W
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I’m fine with that as long as we first lock up the almost 10,000,000 housed addicts. Then we can get to the 250k homeless. Because guess what, THEY GET THEIR DRUGS FROM THE SAME PLACE.
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The argument isn't only that enforcement is completely ineffective at reducing the availability of drugs, it also that in systematic review more enforcement provably makes things more violenthttps://twitter.com/julianbuchanan/status/1407510229764370434?s=19 …
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